· Private foundation
Blue Yak Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $430k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNETT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRIC | $68,884 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $50,000 |
| CHELSEA'S FUND | $40,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY & MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| LCH HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES | $35,000 |
| GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER | $30,000 |
| KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE | $30,000 |
| STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER | $28,316 |
| BUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $25,000 |
| THE CHESHIRE HORSE AND HOUND FND | $23,764 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORP | $16,000 |
| NEW ERA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN ON THE EDGE | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $689k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Blue Yak Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 51% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
57 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LHLCH Health and Community Services6× · 2020–2025 · $366k · revenue +43%
- SWSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $276k · revenue +79%
- YOYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE6× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +68%
Funded once
KENNETT LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +51%- EIEFD INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- LWLIVING WATER FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2020 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women and girls in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc and the most unlike its peers is Primitive Hall Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds The Hamels Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUTTERNUT VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds New Era Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACKWOOD EDUCATIONAL LAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PLANTATION FIELD EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Art Association of Jackson Hole ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KENNETT RUN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PAWS - PROVIDING ANIMAL WELFARE SERVICES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · Applestone Foundation-Ima · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · Fjc · The Roemer Foundation · Forney Family Foundation Inc · Ccres
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Blue Yak Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.